Colombia increases cocaine production by more than 50% in the years of Gustavo Petro –

Coca crops and potential cocaine production in Colombia increased by more than 50% during 2023, according to the InsIght Crime portal

Gustavo Petro’s government promised to stop forced eradication efforts and focused on seizures to combat drug trafficking, however the results are not encouraging.

According to the same portal, «Nariño and Cauca continue to be the main centers of coca cultivation in the country. About 40% of coca production is focused on 14% of the country,” according to the report.

This means that almost half of coca crops are found in special management areas such as natural parks (4%), indigenous reservation sites (10%), forest reserves (14%) and lands of Afro-Colombian communities (20%). %). In these areas there is no military intervention, neither domestic nor foreign, because they are considered “restricted areas” by the State.

In 2022, Colombia registered the record of 230,000 hectares of coca reported, this implies a total of 1,738 tons per year.

Well, the Government’s “anti-narcotics” strategy, which breaks with that of its predecessors, adopted a much more permissive stance with the coca crops that grow every year under the presidency of the leftist Gustavo Petro.